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Although the immediate threat posed by CAFTA is job losses, the most important reason to oppose CAFTA is that it would be a steppingstone to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Congressional approval of the FTAA would spell the end of U.S. Independence and our American way of life.

Bill Gates Microsoft Wants End to Overseas Hiring Limits - (reader link) Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates urged the Bush administration and lawmakers to abolish immigration limits on foreign engineers who can be hired by U.S. companies, a sensitive subject among American technology workers watching their own jobs increasingly move overseas.

Chinese Immigrants Protest U.S. Job Loss
SAN FRANCISCO -- Chinese immigrant workers marched through the streets of downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, shouting slogans and waving signs to protest the loss of garment jobs they say are being shipped to China. - (link updated)

Job Drought Continues
- by Paul Craig Roberts In March the US economy created a paltry 111,000 private sector jobs, half the expected amount. Following a well-established pattern, US job growth was concentrated in domestic services: waitresses and bartenders, construction, administrative and waste services, and health care and social assistance.In the 21st century the US economy has ceased to create jobs in knowledge industries or information technology (IT). It has been a long time since any jobs were created in export and import-competitive sectors.

Trade deficit soars
The U.S. trade deficit climbed to $58.3 billion in January, the second-highest level in history, as Americans' appetite for foreign consumer products and automobiles hit record highs. The deficit with China was pushed higher by a surge in textile shipments, reflecting the end of global quotas. - (Not so much "Americans' appetitie" for cheap foreign goods as international corporations appetite for cheap slave labor.)

China is winning the trade war with the United States - at least 1.5 million Americans have lost their jobs A report by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank released Tuesday concluded that the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with China from 1989 to 2003 cost 1.5 million Americans their jobs. The report found that 199,000 new jobs were created by the growth in trade with China. But the number of jobs lost -- 1.7 million -- resulted in a net loss to American workers, it said.

Florida: Associates of Accused Palestinian Businessman Convicted of hiring illegal middle-eastern migrants
A jury has convicted a business partner and an accountant of a Palestinian-American businessman accused of hiring illegal immigrants to work at his Orlando-area tourist shops, finding the two men guilty on assorted conspiracy, fraud, tax-evasion and money-laundering charges. Mohammed Saleem Khanani, a partner of Jesse Maali in Big Bargain World and Sports Dominator stores and longtime accountant David Portlock, were convicted after an eight-week trial in Orlando's federal court.

Both men - and Maali - were charged with 53 counts of hiring illegal immigrants to work in their stores. Eighteen other charges alleged they conspired to use front companies to launder $4.4 million, secretly paid workers and failed to pay federal income and employment taxes.

Maali, 59 a millionaire gift-shop proprietor and owner of several restaurants, was severed from the case and his trial delayed so he could undergo treatment for lung cancer. Khanani, 53, was convicted on 60 counts, including 42 of the 53 original counts of hiring illegal immigrants. The jury also found that Khanani hired the undocumented workers - many from the Middle East - to gain "competitive advantage" over other International Drive merchants.

Pest Experts Want to Slow Spread of Asian 'Free-Trade' Bio-Terror BeetleOhio -- Scientists suspect the insect arrived in cargo ships from Asia about a decade ago. A tree-killing beetle that wiped out millions of ash trees in Michigan has grabbed a foothold in Toledo, and pest experts now are focused on stopping it from spreading through the Midwest. New infestations discovered in the last few months indicate that the beetle called the emerald ash borer is moving south into Ohio.

A
Jobless Recovery? - Immigrant Gains and Native LossesThe recovery
from the recession of 2001 has been described as jobless. In fact,
an analysis of the latest Census Bureau data shows that between March of 2000
and March of 2004, the number of adults working actually increased, but all
of the net change went to immigrant workers. -
(NNN Invasion)

FAX
CONGRESS FREE about the impact of H-1B visas on American workers Some
18 million Americans and legal workers currently cannot find full-time jobs in
the United States. More than 100,000 American programmers are unemployed.
When those who are underemployed or working in other jobs because they cannot
find programming jobs, the total grows to about half a million. At the same
time, more than 450,000 H-1B workers are employed as programmers in the United
States. U.S. employers are cutting jobs at the same time they are importing H-1B
workers to fill the remaining jobs. - (DQ-list)

Vets'
New Fight: Getting Jobs BackIncreasing numbers of National
Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are
encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated,
benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.

American
Worker Journal - Issue: April 9, 2004 News, commentary, and actions
critical to fighting American worker replacement programs.Stop
the loss of American jobs to cheaper foreign labor!A Publication
of HireAmericanCitizens.org

Boycott
VF Jeanswear's move to Mexico I lost my job 12-19-2002. It
makes me sick how they made us put those stickers on each pair of jeans that said
"PROUD TO BE MADE IN THE USA"
That was the mid-80's and at lot changed with that company since then. We
all have President Clinton to thank for his concern in Foreign Trade. As far as
I am concerned he was NO president! Lisa Strassner Virginia, USA

Draft
program to take back America for the benefit of Americans by NNN

1.
Round up and deport all illegal aliens 2. Give all legal, foreign
workers six months to leave the country 3. Only American English
will be spoken in all work places 4. Ballots may only be printed
in American English 5. No foreign ownership of American businesses
or property 6. US to withdraw from all foreign economic treaties
such as NAFTA,
GATT,
the World
Bank, etc. 7. Increase constitutional
tariffs until they eliminate competition by foreign slave labor 8.
End all foreign aid and loans 9. Abolish
the private "Federal Reserve" 10. Stop paying usuriousinterest
on the Federal Debt 11. A charge of Treason for theft, export or sale
of American Technology 12. Illegal aliens may not transfer money out of US.
Tourists may not leave with more than they came with. 13. Abolish income tax.
14. Prevent investment by American Citizens in competing foreign industry or technology
15. (may be revised or expanded...)